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Yes, we can win a round, but after the performance against the Cavs, if we don't defend and rebound, we're gonna have to shoot everything under the sun.

I was watching this on thursday during inside the NBA. And I thought to myself **** Charles Barkley he's just a knick hater anyway. But damn we sure made him look like a genius tonight. We've got to play better D than we did tonight and vs the Bucks.. We gave up 108 and 115 respectively to terrible offenses.. We couldn't stop them at all..

D'Antoni guaranteed me that the team will average 146ppg in every playoff game, shoot 35 3s and make 60% of them, we don't need to play defense.

Walsh got a wakeup call last night, first big in either Murphy or Pryzbilla that gets his buyout, sign ASAP or get Barron as plan B and bring in Jeffries. Also clean out some of that dead wood like Mason and Carter to make room.

I think we can win in the first round but to go any further we need to add some size and rebounding. If we do not add that to our arsenal then maybe we squeeze through on individual monster performances from melo, stat and billups.

Saddly they are right. We can't win without defense. There is no way, we can always shoot good. basically the flaw in D'Antonie system is that,
yes, we can score and score big, on great shooting nights. but everynight isnt a great shooting night.

1. on bad shooting nights,no defense means it's an almost guaranteed loss.
2. Even when we're on(shooting), the games are close and the other team can scratch out a win.
3. shooting cold can happen anytime. Like in the 1st quarter leading to a lead that we cut down, but ultimately blow anyway.or in the 4th, where we blow a big lead. Or anytime during a game.

You need defense to win games when your team is having an off night offenseively. Thats how you win playoff basketball.

Even the showtime Lakers could get a stop when they needed to, that's the difference. When we really REALLY need a stop, we can't... Or if we can, we give up an offensive rebound and shot clock reset.

To be fair, the showtime Lakers had 3 Hall of Famers on their team including 2 of the best players to ever play the game in Kareem & Magic. They also had 1 of the best defensive role players of alltime Michael Cooper. Also helped having a coach like Pat Riley at the helm.

IMO if the Knicks had a shotblocking C that could pull down rebounds, it would give us the final missing piece. We now have 2 stud offensive weapons that other teams won't be able to stop along with a big game shotmaking PG with championship experience & leadership skills, our next target needs to be on getting the defensive C that can start games. Turiaf is a nice role player to have but he's better off the bench as an energy hustle guy, he's not really a guy you can count on to grab you double digit rebounds on a given night. I think Kendrick Perkins, Deandre Jordan or Sam Dalembert should be the Knicks' main targets now that we have Melo in the fold, but if the cap situation prevents any of those guys as options, then we might have to lower our sights on going after another role player like Jeff Foster or Etan Thomas who could share the load with Turiaf and give us someone that can battle other teams' bigs downlow for position without getting easily outmuscled.

To be fair, the showtime Lakers had 3 Hall of Famers on their team including 2 of the best players to ever play the game in Kareem & Magic. They also had 1 of the best defensive role players of alltime Michael Cooper. Also helped having a coach like Pat Riley at the helm.

Completely get that, but they're the only winning team I can think of that I could even slightly compare our Knicks too.

Completely get that, but they're the only winning team I can think of that I could even slightly compare our Knicks too.

Defense wins titles, seems everyone but MDT knows this.

No doubt about it every title team I can think of has had some excellent defensive players. We could really use a shutdown defensive guy, someone that can lock down on the other team's top offensive weapon & take him out of the equation for a stretch while we get some much needed stops. We don't have many options but still MDA can't be afraid to utilize guys like Balkman, Brewer & Shelden during games where we're getting out hustled like last night.